(How Does Your Garden Grow?)

Tommy

Gwendolyn Brooks

 

I put a seed into the ground

And said, "I'll watch it grow."

I watered it and cared for it

As well as I could know.

One day I walked in my back yard,

And oh, what did I see!

My seed had popped itself right out,

Without consulting me.

 

 

(How does your garden grow?)